Pay for Performance: FAQs From Physicians

What family physicians need to know about pay for performance.

Pay for performance (or P4P) may seem like a distant phenomenon to many physicians – one they don’t want to concern themselves with just yet. However, in the past few years, P4P programs have proliferated. Virtually all major payers, including Medicare, are piloting P4P programs and will soon be measuring physician performance and offering financial incentives to those who meet quality target...

FAQs for Elected Officials

Pay for performance.

Pay-for-Performance Initiatives

BACKGROUND: Improving the quality of care provided to beneficiaries while reining in costs, is a key goal for Medicare programs. The emerging payfor-performance (P4P) movement is a reimbursement strategy that provides incentives to improve the overall quality care provided to patients, which can lead to improved clinical outcomes and reduced health care utilization and costs. OBJECTIVE: To revi...

Reward System for Completing FAQs

The creation of Answer Communities around a FAQs Site is proposed to speed up the process of answering questions. Our approach combines long-term and short-term rewards. Long-term rewards are found to boost participation, motivating users to complete FAQs with proper answers faster.